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Home / 2024 / July / 22 / Summer Reads

Summer Reads

July 22, 2024

Summer reads

Summer break + Okanagan sunshine + beach days call for a good book!

Our library staff have put together a list of popular reads from our collection for you to enjoy before the busy school year starts again. Explore this display on the library’s main floor until August 1 or find the books listed below to check out at your conveniece. Click on the book title link to find out how you can borrow it. 

Did you know that the Okanagan Regional Library has a branch in the UBCO Library? Get your favourite books delivered right to campus all year round. Learn about ORL at UBCO Library!

Summer reads 2

Call me by your name by André Aciman

The writing retreat : a novel by Julia Bartz

A history of my brief body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

The vanishing half by Brit Bennett

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The double life of Benson Yu : a novel by Kevin Chong

The alchemist by Paulo Coelho ; translated by Alan R. Clarke

The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins

Girl, woman, other by Bernardine Evaristo

Five little Indians by Michelle Good

The fault in our stars by John Green

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

All the quiet places by Brian Thomas Isaac

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The vegetarian : a novel by Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith

Babel, or, The necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators’ revolution by R.F. Kuang

We are okay : a novel by by Nina LaCour

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The sleeping car porter by Suzette Mayr

Circe : a novel by Madeline Miller

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for another world by Ottessa Moshfegh

Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Commonwealth : a novel by Ann Patchett

The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers

The barren grounds by David A. Robertson ; illustration, Natasha Donovan

Monkey beach by Eden Robinson

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders

White teeth by Zadie Smith

The goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The hate u give by Angie Thomas

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Fight night by Miriam Toews

A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Indian Horse : a novel by Richard Wagamese

The Nickel boys : a novel by Colson Whitehead

The underground railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead


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